Midway...

[Trooper117]

This might get some juices flowing.

 

 

[Na-zdorovie]

very good video, the music was firs class like a proper war film production, very tense and atmospheric great job mate really.

 

[DBFlyguy]

It may not be the "prettiest" by today's graphics standards... but modded 1946 is still the undisputed king of WWII air combat sims as far as I'm concerned, so many possibilities and it has the pacific theatre along with other lesser known fronts.  If someone finds a way to implement VR into it, it'd be the perfect WWII air combat sim.

[Trooper117]

Yes, with the music choice and selection of the action scenes they have made something pretty outstanding..

[Gambit21]

3 hours ago, DBFlyguy said:

It may not be the "prettiest" by today's graphics standards... but modded 1946 is still the undisputed king of WWII air combat sims as far as I'm concerned, so many possibilities and it has the pacific theatre

 

Yep

[352nd_Wheels]

Cool IL-2 video.

Here is a period video that was done less than ten years after the battle.

Part One of a Naval Training film from 1950 based upon the 1948 document "NAVPERS 91067, The Battle of Midway Including the Aleutian Phase, June 3 to June 14, 1942: Strategical and Tactical Analysis by Richard W Bates" (later Rear Admiral Bates) at the Naval War college.

 

I have never been able to find part two of this training film.

 

Warning!!
Period prejudices towards the Japanese are still very much evident in this 1950 program.

 

Battle of Midway:

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgpLzp8TGU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HgpLzp8TGU
1942 ARC Identifier 13196 / Local Identifier 80-MN-9168D.
Department of the Navy. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
Naval Observatory. (1942 - 09/18/1947)
Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.

 

More reading on the subject of Midway can be found here:
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/search.html?q=Midway&start=0&tag=midway

Get the NAVPERS 91067, The Battle of Midway Including the Aleutian Phase document here:
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/search.html?q=Midway+richard+bates&start=0&pdf=true&ts=false

 

Wheels

[Hoss]

Loved Pacific Fighters, flew with AG-51 back then, using HSFX mod, Fireball was a developer for a lot of the carrier mods, he was in the group and always had new stuff for us. We did long SEOW campaigns with the 69GIAP they would be the IJN and we were USN, then we would switch.  Great missions, and a great group of individuals on both sides.  AG-51 is still flying Virtual Naval Aviation but now on DCS in the F/A-18 and AV8B.  We had a AG-51 Tail Hook every year in Oct.  The guys would meet at someones house in the lower 48, willing to host us for three or four days.  Those that attended had a blast, those that could not were on comms.  I have thought about putting the legacy game back in, but I remember what a pain it could be with the mods.  Sniffffff.  I'm feeling all nostalgic now.. snort........ gotta go..

 

Hoss

[Props]

Speaking of Midway, I am currently reading Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully. It goes into the Japanese side of the story in great detail. An appropriate follow-up to reading Lundstrom's The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway which covers the American side very well. Which al makes me twitch for some carrier action something terrible, so I feel your pain Hoss;-)

[Chief_Mouser]

Looks like my carrier repaints in the vid, good to see that they're still getting some use. Like Hoss we (242Sqn) did a big Midway campaign in SEOW along with the 102nd and a heap of other squads. HSFX attracted some really good modders and there was a load of great stuff there.

Good times.

[Rei-sen]

On 6/19/2021 at 8:08 AM, DBFlyguy said:

It may not be the "prettiest" by today's graphics standards... but modded 1946 is still the undisputed king of WWII air combat sims as far as I'm concerned, so many possibilities and it has the pacific theatre along with other lesser known fronts.  If someone finds a way to implement VR into it, it'd be the perfect WWII air combat sim.

Absolutely! By the way, with certain mods, it's overall way prettier than it's successor. No other sim gives me the feeling of a real combat that's going on around me. The immersion level is the best. The AI is great! It's actually challenging, and at the same time not that UFO-like as some people claim. Any dogfight is more believable in 1946 than in any other sim. Add to that a great variety of aircraft, maps, scenarios, etc. Even dynamic campaigns are better in 1946. It's so much fun that I even stopped playing other sims (except DCS occasionally).